First Look at “The Avengers” in This Week’s Edition of EW
Marvel’s The Avengers will be featured on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly and we have a first look at it! For a first impression, it’s certainly quite underwhelming and badly photoshopped. The cover consists of Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo posing awkwardly together. But if you look closer, you can definitely notice that it’s just a poorly put-together mish-mash of six separate pictures rather than a real photoshoot with everyone actually in the same room. Lame.
There is also a few tidbits in EW’s sneek peek with Renner saying “Just because they’re super heroes doesn’t mean they’re super friends,” and writer-director Joss Whedon telling Entertainment Weekly he was rewriting dialogue every day. “There is a weird element of: they handed me one of the biggest movies of all time,” says Whedon, “and I’m making it up as I go.” Everyone’s favorite bathroom magazine will presumably have more pictures inside and hopefully, they will look a lot better than the cover. Be sure to pick up a copy if you are interested.
The Avengers also stars Samuel L. Jackson who plays Nick Fury, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders as SHIELD agents. The movie hits theaters May 4, 2012.
Update: EW has just released some a new still and two set photos. Those are a lot better than the ridiculous cover. Check the pictures out below!)
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You know what, I really hope that this film is good. There has been just so much build-up for it, and some really good films have been the “prequels” so it will just be very sad if this isn’t great. And I hope Nick Fury gets a really cool monologue.
Given the somewhat underwhelming recent offerings from Marvel, I wouldn’t get my expectations too high.
I quite liked the recent offerings actually, especially Captain America, which turned out to be *SPOILER ALERT* a big trailer for this. And yes, I plan to do exactly what Melody says.
I thought that was Johnny Depp for a split second…
Who? Ruffalo?
Yeah, he looks like Crane from Sleepy Hollow
Avoid reading about it then. When I really want NOT to be disappointed I avoid…commercials…trailers etc. But I guess that’s hard if you’re writing a review. Pick some obscure snobby shit instead.
I assume you are responding to Nikhat above?
Thanks for dropping by Melody!
yes sir. welcome
That cover is just awful! ScarJo’s head is completely disproportioned from the rest of her body, which is sad considering she’s the focal point. Their graphics teams needs firing.
Yea the cover looks very amateurish. I’m very surprised EW came out with that.
This cover is almost as bad PR damage as the X-Men First Class character posters. Simply Awful. Someone should get fired over this.
@Max totally agree! I could do better with CS5
“Rewriting dialogue every day”? That doesn’t exactly inspire me with confidence.
Meh. On big projects like this, I don’t think it’s very uncommon. I know when they did LoTR, they would change the dialogue four or five times for one scene alone, and this was a daily occurrence. Actors would get new cue cards just minutes before filming.
That’s a terrible magazine cover. I hope the film is decent and that Joss Whedon gives us something that will be really good.
Still sucks that there’s only one chick on the team.
Oh well, still loooking forward to it, and looking forward to hitting the Avengers panel at New York Comic Con is two weeks. I hope to get in line early enough to get decent seats!
Yea but the chick is Scar Jo
Yeah. LOL. It is.
2 chicks…Cobie Smulders is Agent Maria Hill.
Whedon is exceptional when it comes to ensemble casts. I am totally looking forward to this despite being lukewarm on Cap.
Why does Chris Hemsworth look kinda… gay in the last pic…
He’s trying out his Fabio impression.
Ahaha thought the same thing Gabriel
Let’s be honest, all of these superhero types look like they could play for my team. The costumes alone ought to give it away.
LOL @ Ruffalo in the cover. Such an awful cover. Ruffalo redeems it by playing it for laughs (I think).
Their serious frowns are hilarious. I’m sure they were just individual shots which were ok by themselves but a cackle of laughs when Photoshopped together into that cover
I nearly died of laughter because of that poster. Seriously, Ruffalo is doing a Zoolander pose? Come on! Chris Evans is totally posing for a driver’s license. I’m pretty sure they just took the. Not a clue on earth what SJ is doing, I guess the macarena… though the pistols seem like overkill. And Renner, well he’s clearly staring down an army of killer tomatoes.
The “I’m pretty sure they just took the” should continued with “photos of Downey Jr. and Hemsworth right out of catalogs for their respective films”
Ahah, Zoolander pose, that’s exactly what my hubby said when he showed it to me. So instead of being angry and turning green, Hulk is gonna just pose and pout??
And Scar Jo’s head is huge relative to her body. This cover looks like it was made by a middle-school kid on his first Photoshop project.
pics look pretty sad…movie will be pretty great though!
Nothing special there which is dissapointing as I’m not sure when ‘The Avengers’ will start upping the stakes and attempt to steal the limelight from ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (which to be fair, has come out of a lot of leaks…). I don’t want spoilers left, right and centre, but a nice, juicy taster (photo, short clip, etc) for the fans would be nice.
argh, I am really not feeling this at all. All looks a bit plasticy if you ask me!!
Hi, Castor and company:
Was never much of an Avengers fan to begin with. Always preferred Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’, ‘Fantastic Four’ and ‘Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos’. Also Steranko’s later take on ‘Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD’.
The cast looks great for this flick, though. Especially Jeremy Renner as ‘Hawkeye’!
Note to Scarlet Johansson: When you fire your Cap Gun looking, Glock Semi-Auto Pistol(s)(Which really should be Colt .45 ACPs). Shouldn’t the slide(s)cycle backwards to eject brass?
Just a thought.
The thought process was probably behind the gun choices was probably something like that: “The Colt .45 is too manly for Scar Jo, let’s give her some little plastic Glocks!”
I’m not sure how I feel about The Avengers anymore. I’ll still go see it but I’m not sure how much I’ll enjoy it. I love the characters separately, so this can either go two ways: 1, it’ll be great fun and it won’t seem strange all of them on screen together or 2, it will be very disjointed…
PS. I like the last photo with Hemsworth, he looks cute!
Fingers and toes crossed that we get a good film out of this … how The Hulk is handled will be the deal-breaker for me. Not that I doubt Ruffalo’s skills or anything, but the Hulk (in CGI) has proven to be tricky to get right on film for me.
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